Website Search Results for: community health workers
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Date: Apr 2017
A recorded webinar that discusses how to integrate community health workers (CHWs) and volunteers into the healthcare system to care for complex patients in hard-to-reach areas. Includes a case study from rural Montana about collaborating with volunteers to help socially isolated patients access community resources and social services.
...Access · Community engagement and volunteerism · Community health workers · Networking and collaboration · Service delivery models · Montana...
Reviewed: Aug 15, 2024
Using Community Health Workers, an Idaho consortium leveraged grant-funding to bring health and wellness programs, disease screening, and health education to frontier residents.
...workers · Diabetes · Frontier and remote areas · Health disparities · Health screening · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention Idaho Rural Health Information Hub, 2024 . The Health-able Communities...
Reviewed: Aug 15, 2024
A community health worker-based Chronic Care Management program implemented in a 3-state area of Appalachia has a sustainability track record due to insurance payer support.
...Community Health Worker-based Chronic Care Management Program --- A community health worker-based Chronic Care...
Date: Oct 2022
Examines the effectiveness of community health worker (CHW) home visiting interventions in the Health Start Program (HSP) in Arizona to improve childhood vaccination rates. Utilizes the Arizona State Immunization Information System (ASIIS) database to compare vaccination uptake among children whose mothers participated in the HSP between 2006 and 2016 to a demographically similar cohort. Analyzes vulnerable populations with a history of low vaccination uptake including Hispanic/Latinx, American Indian, children of low socioeconomic status and/or living with parents with less than a high school education, rural border counties, children with teen mothers, and first-born children.
...community health worker (CHW) home visiting interventions in the Health Start Program (HSP) in Arizona...
Date: May 2005
Provides a national overview of state policy and state involvement in more formal training and certification of community health workers. Analyzes the potential effects of these policy trends.
...community health workers. Analyzes the potential effects of these policy trends. --- Community Health Worker (CHW) Certification...
Date: Nov 2019
Reviews the results from 9 studies funded by the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute supporting the inclusion of community health workers (CHWs) and peer providers (PPs) as effective participants in addressing health and healthcare inequities, particularly for diverse communities. Each study presented focuses on a distinct function of utilizing CHWs and/or PPS such as mentoring, managing chronic conditions, and navigator support for serious mental illness and depression. Discusses why payers and providers should include CHWs and PPS in a variety of capacities to improve outcomes, add value to care, and control costs.
...Community health workers · Health conditions · Healthcare quality · Mental health · Mental health conditions · Statistics and data...
Reviewed: Mar 12, 2026
Some key points to consider for the recruitment, hiring, and retention of community health workers in rural communities.
...community health workers in rural communities. --- Recruitment, Hiring, and Retention of Community Health Workers Recruitment...
Date: Dec 2023
Details a study exploring how rural and urban communities in Kansas are screening for social determinants of health and using community health workers to address challenges. Bases findings on surveys of providers and clinic managers.
...Community health workers · Health screening · Social determinants of health · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention...
Date: Jun 2022
Examines the Maryland landscape of community health workers (CHWs) and the organizations that employ them; identifies barriers and facilitators to incorporating the CHW skillset into patient-centered healthcare models; and determines the impact of CHWs on access to healthcare and use of preventive health services by the people they serve. Features statistics including demographics, services provided, funding sources, and type of employer, with breakdowns by urban or rural area.
...Community health workers · Funding · Health workforce supply and demand · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data...
Date: Jan 2025
Examines the feasibility of community health worker (CHW) participation in a collaborative cancer care pain intervention for rural and/or Hispanic/Latino patients, utilizing survey and interview data of 12 CHWs. Discusses CHW experiences and comfort working with cancer patients in underserved settings.
...Medicine, 14(1), 13-28 01/2025 Cancer · Chronic disease management · Community health workers · Health conditions...